1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 426 Nanyang Intelligence Network

Hao Wanqing, 28 years old, is from Shandong. Before time travel, he started a private investigation company, also known as a private detective.However, before doing this job, he also graduated from a regular police academy and worked in a grassroots police station for several years, which can be regarded as a professional background. Later, he felt that it was not an option to rely on salary, so he chose to go to sea to work alone.

Unlike common novels and movies, domestic private detectives don't have many criminal cases to participate in, and more are entrusted with civil investigation cases, such as investigations on property, marriage, economic status, tracing, etc.Although these investigations are quite lucrative, they will inevitably become tedious after a long time. Hao Wanqing is a person who can't sit still, otherwise he wouldn't have put down his job and set out on his own.By chance, he learned about the Time Travel Group, so he decisively terminated his career and went to Guangzhou to join the group.

After time-traveling, Hao Wanqing was assigned under the name of the Military and Police Department at the beginning. Anyway, he can be regarded as someone who has been in the regular police force for a few days, and he is also considered as one of the few experienced people in the time-traveling group.At the beginning, he didn't think about joining the special department. He was pulled in by the executive committee and He Xi by name - of course, He Xi played a greater role.

The intelligence leader appointed by the executive committee is He Xi, but he has been stationed outside for a long time, and his main job is the relationship with Daming. He does not have enough energy to operate the internal structure of the intelligence system. It is up to other people to shoulder this responsibility.There are not many candidates who are qualified for this special job in the crossing, and Hao Wanqing is undoubtedly the best among them, so He Xi appointed him as the deputy of the intelligence department.

However, at this time, the military and police have not yet separated, and the external intelligence work is also concentrated in the direction of the mainland. Therefore, what Hao Wanqing can do is to straighten out the internal relationship first, establish the embryonic form of the intelligence department, and follow He Xi's plan. It is required to start selecting some candidates from this time and space for training.This kind of work can be described as unknown, not to mention brilliant, so in the first year of time travel, very few people had heard of Hao Wanqing's name, and even many people in the time travel group didn't know the surname Hao What department do the Shandong people work in?

This situation continued until after the first anniversary of crossing, and various departments began to make large-scale adjustments, and the intelligence and security department was also separated from the military and police system, officially existing as an independent department, which means that this department The authority will no longer be limited to the level of the subordinate organs of the Ministry of Military and Police, but will rise to the level of the management unit of the Executive Committee.The Ministry of Security is only responsible to the Executive Committee, and even the operating funds are listed separately, and will not be included in military expenses or ordinary security expenses.

The first preferential treatment that the security department received was an independent office location.Considering the special functions of this department, He Xi and Hao Wanqing signed a joint report requesting to build an office outside of Fort Victory. A two-story tube building was built in a mountain depression about two kilometers in the direction as the office of the Ministry of Security, and hundreds of acres of nearby mountains and forests were assigned to the Ministry of Security to allow room for future expansion.

As for the demand for personnel, the Executive Committee also gave the green light. As long as the Ministry of Security is interested in people, they can almost all get a job transfer order quickly.Most of them are selected from militia groups. After all, these people have relatively high loyalty, and almost all of them have family members who have settled in Sanya, so the possibility of changes in political attitudes is relatively small.

In addition, due to the nature of the work of the intelligence department, a large number of literate personnel are required to do the work related to the internal affairs of intelligence sorting. Therefore, among the down-and-out literati who took refuge in Haihan, some were recruited into this special department.However, for these literati who came to Haihan for a stable life, it is actually a good thing to be able to enter the yamen of the Ministry of Security. It is a bit higher than their clerical work in other units.

After nearly half a year of preparation and improvement, the Ministry of Security finally completed the basic structure construction.At present, the Ministry of Security has several departments such as the Technical Department, the Secret Service Department, the Training Department, the Internal Affairs Department, the Anti-Spy Department, the Ming Dynasty Affairs Department, the Annan Affairs Department, and the Nanyang Affairs Department. Although Hao Wanqing claimed to be the director of the Nanyang Affairs Department, he did not At the same time, he also holds positions in multiple departments such as the Internal Affairs Department and the Secret Service Department—this is also impossible. He Xi is still in charge of the intelligence work for the mainland in Guangzhou, and Hao Wanqing still has to handle many things in the headquarters. director.

Of course, since he personally went to invite Zhan Gui back, the things to be discussed were naturally not trivial.In the self-introduction, he specifically stated the title of "Nanyang Affairs Office", which is also a shot of vaccination to Zhan Gui.

When Zhan Gui heard that the other party actually used the word "help", he hurriedly got off the chair and bowed in response: "Director Hao has any orders, you might as well just say them straight. If the villain can do what he can, he will definitely not refuse."

Hao Wanqing nodded and said: "Since your attitude is so positive, then I'll be straightforward. According to what we have learned, Boss Zhan, you should be familiar with all the ports in Nanyang, right?"

Zhan Gui quickly responded, "I don't know what the scope of what Director Hao said?"

"For example, the commercial ports along the coast of places like Managa, Batavia, and Borneo." Hao Wanqing clearly pointed out the scope of the target.

Zhan Gui swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and replied honestly: "The villain has indeed been to the places mentioned by Director Hao. But these places are decided by Westerners, and the villain has nothing to say in the local area. It's influential."

"You don't need much influence in the local area, as long as you have trade relations with the merchants there." Hao Wanqing said in a deep voice: "We plan to send some people to these ports in Nanyang, but we need a reasonable, not An identity that will attract too much attention from the local rulers. After much deliberation, it should be the most suitable businessman engaged in maritime trade, what do you think, Boss Zhan?"

"Little man... I have no objection." Naturally, Zhan Gui didn't dare to say something like "I'll go first if you play" to reject Hao Wanqing's arrangement. Almost half of the goods he trafficked to Nanyang now came from Sanya. He didn't want to negatively affect his trade share in this region by offending Hao Wanqing.

Hao Wanqing looked at Zhan Gui and nodded slowly, as if affirming his attitude.Then I heard Hao Wanqing say again: "I will send about a dozen people to your shipyard later on, and they are all Ming people. Settle down. As for the follow-up matters, someone will tell you what to do."

Zhan Gui can be regarded as someone who has seen the world, and he already understood half of it when he heard it - the Haihan people are going to bury nails in the territory of the Western Fans!As for why the Haihan people did this, Zhan Gui didn’t need to ask Hao Wanqing to think that with Haihan’s current development momentum, it is almost inevitable to expand the control area to the South China Sea in the future, while Borneo, Manlaja, and Badawi These places in Asia are the main points of guarding important shipping routes. With the temperament of the Haihan people, I am afraid that these places should be in their own hands to be at ease, just like the measures they took at the Pearl River Estuary.

Zhan Gui knew in his heart that if he agreed now, if armed conflict broke out in these places in the future, his ship line would probably bear the brunt of the disaster. It would be fine if the Haihan people won the war. You don't have to worry about doing business in these places anymore.However, he also understood that Hao Wanqing specially invited him here from Sanya Port to discuss, not just to ask for his opinion, but probably more to inform him of the arrangement of the Ministry of Security on such an occasion.In other words, the arrangement was probably not something he could refuse.

Zhan Gui didn't intend to try to reject the other party, because the consequences of doing so were really unpredictable to him. It's better not to try this kind of risk casually.He thought for a while before answering: "If Director Hao already has a perfect plan, then the villain is willing to cooperate."

Hao Wanqing praised: "Very good, then there will be some questions for you to answer, and cooperate with us to do some investigation work, and it won't take you too long."

"It's easy to say, easy to say." Zhan Gui quickly and politely responded.

Hao Wanqing called his subordinates to come in, invited Zhan Gui to another room, and began to ask him while writing notes.The questions are basically based on the conditions of various commercial ports in Nanyang, such as the local environmental conditions, price levels, folk customs, the status of the armed forces, etc. The questions are very detailed, and there are often at least [-] to [-] questions under one item Need Zhan Gui to answer.Zhan Gui knew that this matter was related to his own wealth and safety in the future, so he didn't dare to answer casually, and could only answer after thinking clearly one by one.

Zhan Gui didn't know how many questions he had answered, but when he felt a little hungry, someone brought lunch and told him that he had half an hour to eat and rest.

This working meal is very rich, with chicken and fish, four dishes and one soup, and it tastes good. Zhan Gui has been in Sanya for a long time, and he knows that this is a special meal for the head of the collective canteen. Ordinary naturalized people think To eat this kind of set meal, you have to spend several yuan in circulation coupons.When Zhan Gui was eating, Hao Wanqing also came, but he didn't stay for long, he just looked through the inquiry records, exchanged a few words with Zhan Gui, and left in a hurry.

After a short break, the inquiry continued. The two staff members took the trouble to ask Zhan Gui all the information he knew about the commercial ports in Nanyang. Later, Zhan Gui spoke incoherently.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that the questioning finally came to an end. Zhan Gui, who had been sitting for a long time, stood up and found that his whole body was sore, presumably because he was too nervous.At this time, Hao Wanqing appeared again, expressed his gratitude to Zhan Gui for his cooperation, and sent a car to take him back to Sanya New City the same way.

The efficiency of the security department was very high. More than a dozen people really came to Zhan Gui's boat the next day. The person who led the team showed Zhan Gui the ID of the security department, and another thing that surprised Zhan Gui—— The deposit payment notice from the shipyard of the Ministry of Shipping, which states, "The application for the purchase of the ship has been approved by the merchant Zhan Gui. Please pay the deposit to Haihan Bank within three days, and bring the payment voucher and this notice to the Shengli Port Shipyard for processing. Ship Purchase Procedures".

This unexpected surprise undoubtedly brought great comfort to Zhan Gui who had been anxious since yesterday.Before he even had time to go to the authorities required by several other shipyards to issue certificates, the ship purchase notice was sent. Obviously, only the group of Haihan Security Department could do this.Because Hao Wanqing had clearly hinted to him yesterday that as long as he agreed to give enough assistance to the Security Department, then the matter of buying the ship would be easy to talk about—of course, if he rejected Hao Wanqing’s request at that time, then the matter of buying the ship would be in the direction of In which direction it develops, it is really hard to say.

Although it was a bit risky for Zhan Gui to assist the Haihan Security Department to carry out intelligence activities in commercial ports in Nanyang, but there is no doubt that the rewards for this kind of adventure are also very high. Before doing anything, the Haihan people have already approved It is not difficult to imagine that if the relevant matters go smoothly in his application for the purchase of a ship, then he will definitely gain more trust from the Haihan people and more practical benefits.

In order to be able to handle this matter properly, Zhan Gui decided that he had to lead the fleet on a trip this time.In addition, there are many customs and precautions in the Nanyang region. He also needs to communicate with the people from the security department first. They, the business reputation that Zhan's shipping company has finally established in various commercial ports in Nanyang will also be greatly damaged because of this. This kind of thing cannot be measured with a few silver taels.

Zhan Gui spent three days hanging out with this group of people, trying to tell them everything he had seen and heard in Nanyang. If it wasn't for the urgent urging time from the Ministry of Security, Zhan Gui felt that at least three more words had to be said. Genius will do.But fortunately, it will take some time to go from Sanya to various ports in Nanyang. I can leave the things I haven't finished talking about now, and I can talk about them slowly on the road.

"Go back! I'll be back in two months!" Zhan Gui stood at the bow of the boat, waving to his family on the pier, and shouted loudly.

Although he may have been reluctant at the beginning, Zhan Gui finally decided to cooperate with Haihan's intelligence department and set up a large intelligence network for them in the Nanyang region to prepare for future expansion.

(End of this chapter)